Ubuntu

Installing Wine 1.0.1

Asked by nickc78

I have just installed Ubuntu 9.10 on my PC and was trying to install Wine. I went to the Wine website and tried to download the Ubuntu version. It seems that there is no option to download version 1.0.1 only a more recent beta version. When I tried to install this via the desktop I got an error about the package being broken. I then tried it via the terminal prompt - this is the error got:

Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
or been moved out of Incoming.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:

The following packages have unmet dependencies.
  wine: Depends: wine1.2 but it is not going to be installed

Not sure what it means but it seems that I will not be able to get Wine - anyone have an suggestions how this can be resolved?

Thanks
Nick

Question information

Language:
English Edit question
Status:
Solved
For:
Ubuntu Edit question
Assignee:
No assignee Edit question
Solved by:
nickc78
Solved:
Last query:
Last reply:
Revision history for this message
arochester (arochester) said : 		#1

1) Connect to the Internet.

2) Open a Terminal

3) Input the command: sudo apt-get install wine

Revision history for this message
nickc78 (nickc78) said : 		#2

I had already done that after trying the desktop install. I get the
following error:

Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
or been moved out of Incoming.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:

The following packages have unmet dependencies.
  wine: Depends: wine1.2 but it is not going to be installed
E: Broken packages

Thanks
Nick

On Fri, 2010-02-26 at 14:15 +0000, arochester wrote:
> Your question #102512 on Ubuntu changed:
> https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+question/102512
>
> Status: Open => Answered
>
> arochester proposed the following answer:
> 1) Connect to the Internet.
>
> 2) Open a Terminal
>
> 3) Input the command: sudo apt-get install wine
>

Revision history for this message
nickc78 (nickc78) said : 		#3

I have resolved it now. I installed it via the Synaptics Package Manager. All I had to do was search for Wine and it was a simple as that. I am really impressed with Ubuntu!